Museum - Wollondilly Heritage Centre & Museum in The Oaks, New South Wales, Australia

We are open 10-3 this weekend (12th and 13th Dec.) and next weekend (19th and 20th). When you come and visit us you can also do some Christmas shopping in our shop! Some items seen below!

Please visit our website to see more photographs from our opening of the Hope Out of the Ashes exhibition. You can also hear the inspirational words from Commissioner Fitzsimmons. The link is http://www.wollondillymuseum.org.au//hope-out-of-the-ashes/

On International Volunteers Day we are proud to say we are all volunteers at the Wollondilly Heritage Centre and Museum. We have volunteers from many skilled backgrounds that work as a team to show we are dedicated to preserving the local history of the people of the Wollondilly Shire and Burragorang Valley. We have researchers, exhibition curators, archivists, librarians, teachers, front desk volunteers, hospitality volunteers, cleaners, gardeners, maintenance handypersons and more! We often take turns in helping out it different roles to make our facility an award winning museum. Thank you to all our volunteers!

Last week we were delighted to learn that our hard working president, Trish Hill, was awarded a "Pride of Workmanship" award from the Rotary Club of Wollondilly North. Well deserved, Trish!

More pictures from our opening of the Hope Out of the Ashes exhibition.

Yesterday saw presentations about our local area developed through Yesterday’s Stories. They will soon be available online. Congratulations to all involved.

We had the opening of our exhibition and launch of the Book, Hope Out of the Ashes, with the man who gives us HOPE, Commissioner Shane Fitzsimmons. Always an inspiration.

What a beautiful day to be full of Hope!

HOPE Out of the Ashes. What does HOPE mean to you? Is it... achievement ambition anticipation... aspiration belief concern... See more

Continuing, what does HOPE mean to you? utopia, Promised Land, bright side, castles in the air, or... light at the end of the tunnel... See more

Continuing what HOPE might mean to you. Is it... hopefulness reliance reverie reward... security or stocK? See more

Lest we forget.

In NAIDOC Week we recognise the skill of our indigenous people in their use of cultural burning. Here is a photo from our exhibition, Hope Out of the Ashes, that is soon to be officially opened. It is from Joseph Lycett’s painting of ‘Aborigines burning grassland’, 1820.

Grandparents Day in 2017! Fun in the colonial classroom. School excursions are back at the museum and students will enjoy the colonial classroom as one of the Hands on History activities.

We have some amazing artefacts in our Estonian exhibition. What do your think these were used for?

Some special memories from Nattai PS! Do you know anyone here?

It is History Week and our new exhibition, Hope Out Of The Ashes, is ready for viewing. However, it will continue to grow before it is officially launched later in the year.